| # | Title | Journal | Year | Citations |
|---|
| 1 | Social categorization and intergroup behaviour | European Journal of Social Psychology | 1971 | 4,091 |
| 2 | How does intergroup contact reduce prejudice? Meta‐analytic tests of three mediators | European Journal of Social Psychology | 2008 | 1,710 |
| 3 | Methods of coping with social desirability bias: A review | European Journal of Social Psychology | 1985 | 1,451 |
| 4 | Subtle and blatant prejudice in western Europe | European Journal of Social Psychology | 1995 | 1,359 |
| 5 | Notes towards a description of Social Representations | European Journal of Social Psychology | 1988 | 1,332 |
| 6 | How are habits formed: Modelling habit formation in the real world | European Journal of Social Psychology | 2010 | 1,142 |
| 7 | Achievement orientations from subjective histories of success: Promotion pride versus prevention pride | European Journal of Social Psychology | 2001 | 1,072 |
| 8 | Social identity theory: past achievements, current problems and future challenges | European Journal of Social Psychology | 2000 | 1,052 |
| 9 | Self-categorisation, commitment to the group and group self-esteem as related but distinct aspects of social identity | European Journal of Social Psychology | 1999 | 1,035 |
| 10 | Ingroup bias as a function of salience, relevance, and status: An integration | European Journal of Social Psychology | 1992 | 1,018 |
| 11 | Self-disclosure in computer-mediated communication: The role of self-awareness and visual anonymity | European Journal of Social Psychology | 2001 | 1,008 |
| 12 | Social comparison and social identity: Some prospects for intergroup behaviour | European Journal of Social Psychology | 1975 | 944 |
| 13 | Power, optimism, and risk-taking | European Journal of Social Psychology | 2006 | 932 |
| 14 | Social categorization and similarity in intergroup behaviour | European Journal of Social Psychology | 1973 | 922 |
| 15 | Comments on the motivational status of self-esteem in social identity and intergroup discrimination | European Journal of Social Psychology | 1988 | 915 |
| 16 | Relative effectiveness and validity of mood induction procedures: a meta-analysis | European Journal of Social Psychology | 1996 | 809 |
| 17 | Bodily expression of emotion | European Journal of Social Psychology | 1998 | 722 |
| 18 | Action planning and coping planning for long-term lifestyle change: theory and assessment | European Journal of Social Psychology | 2005 | 709 |
| 19 | Negative affect and social judgment: The differential impact of anger and sadness | European Journal of Social Psychology | 1994 | 707 |
| 20 | Habit, information acquisition, and the process of making travel mode choices | European Journal of Social Psychology | 1997 | 695 |
| 21 | The “Black Sheep Effect”: Extremity of judgments towards ingroup members as a function of group identification | European Journal of Social Psychology | 1988 | 680 |
| 22 | Social comparison and group interest in ingroup favouritism | European Journal of Social Psychology | 1979 | 660 |
| 23 | What have we been priming all these years? On the development, mechanisms, and ecology of nonconscious social behavior | European Journal of Social Psychology | 2006 | 653 |
| 24 | Collective self-esteem consequences of outgroup derogation when a valued social identity is on trial | European Journal of Social Psychology | 1994 | 602 |
| 25 | Value priorities and subjective well-being: direct relations and congruity effects | European Journal of Social Psychology | 2000 | 559 |
| 26 | Social inequality and the reduction of ideological dissonance on behalf of the system: evidence of enhanced system justification among the disadvantaged | European Journal of Social Psychology | 2003 | 533 |
| 27 | Narcissism beyond Gestalt and awareness: The name letter effect | European Journal of Social Psychology | 1985 | 502 |
| 28 | Explaining the nature of power: a three-process theory | European Journal of Social Psychology | 2005 | 494 |
| 29 | Psychological essentialism and the differential attribution of uniquely human emotions to ingroups and outgroups | European Journal of Social Psychology | 2001 | 476 |
| 30 | The ‘ultimate attribution error’? A review of the literature on intergroup causal attribution | European Journal of Social Psychology | 1990 | 423 |
| 31 | Materialistic values and well-being in business students | European Journal of Social Psychology | 2002 | 403 |
| 32 | Priming and communication: Social determinants of information use in judgments of life satisfaction | European Journal of Social Psychology | 1988 | 402 |
| 33 | Power and status differentials in minority and majority group relations | European Journal of Social Psychology | 1991 | 398 |
| 34 | Social identification effects in social dilemmas: a transformation of motives | European Journal of Social Psychology | 1999 | 390 |
| 35 | Perspective taking and prejudice reduction: the mediational role of empathy arousal and situational attributions | European Journal of Social Psychology | 2003 | 388 |
| 36 | The ultra‐social animal | European Journal of Social Psychology | 2014 | 387 |
| 37 | Motivation and dropout in female handballers: a 21-month prospective study | European Journal of Social Psychology | 2002 | 381 |
| 38 | Power and emotion in negotiation: power moderates the interpersonal effects of anger and happiness on concession making | European Journal of Social Psychology | 2006 | 378 |
| 39 | The effect of social motives, communication and group size on behaviour in an N-person multi-stage mixed-motive game | European Journal of Social Psychology | 1984 | 374 |
| 40 | Rage and reason: the psychology of the intuitive prosecutor | European Journal of Social Psychology | 1999 | 365 |
| 41 | The scaffolded mind: Higher mental processes are grounded in early experience of the physical world | European Journal of Social Psychology | 2009 | 353 |
| 42 | A review of paradoxical performance effects: Choking under pressure in sports and mental tests | European Journal of Social Psychology | 1986 | 352 |
| 43 | Implementation intentions and repeated behaviour: augmenting the predictive validity of the theory of planned behaviour | European Journal of Social Psychology | 1999 | 352 |
| 44 | The distinction between desires and intentions | European Journal of Social Psychology | 2004 | 350 |
| 45 | Multiculturalism and acculturation: views of Dutch and Turkish-Dutch | European Journal of Social Psychology | 2003 | 349 |
| 46 | Affective consequences of mere ownership: The name letter effect in twelve European languages | European Journal of Social Psychology | 1987 | 344 |
| 47 | Group versus individual performance on tasks requiring ideational proficiency (brainstorming): A review | European Journal of Social Psychology | 1973 | 343 |
| 48 | Explaining enduring empowerment: a comparative study of collective action and psychological outcomes | European Journal of Social Psychology | 2005 | 340 |
| 49 | A social identity approach to trust: interpersonal perception, group membership and trusting behaviour | European Journal of Social Psychology | 2005 | 331 |
| 50 | Looking for honesty: The primary role of morality (vs. sociability and competence) in information gathering | European Journal of Social Psychology | 2011 | 328 |
